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‘iPad mini’ likely to be Wi-Fi-only — Industry sources increasingly confident that Apple will move into 7in tablet market, but will also launch revised iPads — Apple's expected “iPad mini” will only come in a Wi-Fi version - but there will also be a revised version of the iPad … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Apple shares slump ahead of iPad Mini reveal — Negative press related to Apple supplier Foxconn, concerns about growth, and even a conspiracy theory are to blame for the recent stock slide. — Apple flagship store in New York City — Apple shares are down nearly 10 percent since hitting … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Ballmer to Microsoft shareholders: ‘a fundamental shift [is] underway in our business’ — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has hinted at Microsoft's shift towards a devices and services company previously, but this year's letter to shareholders spells it out very clearly.
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| Tim Westergren / Pandora: |
Pandora and Artist Payments — Have you heard of Donnie McClurkin, French Montana or Grupo Bryndis? If you haven't you're not alone. They are artists whose sales ranks on Amazon are 4,752, 17,000 and 183,187, respectively. These are all working artists who live well outside the mainstream …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Lenovo's backflipping 13-inch IdeaPad Yoga will cost $1,099, 11-inch Windows RT version arrives December for $799 (hands-on) — Of all the crazy convertible tablets we've seen in the last year, one has stayed near and dear to our hearts: Lenovo's IdeaPad Yoga, the 13-inch Windows 8 ultrabook …
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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Samsung to unveil 4-inch ‘mini’ Galaxy S III on October 11th — JK Shin, head of Samsung Mobile Communications, confirmed today that his company will be releasing a four-inch version of the Galaxy S III on October 11th in Germany. Shin announced the news during a meeting with Korean press on Wednesday.| Bloomberg: |
Apple Choice of IPhone Aluminum Said to Slow Down Output — This Expert Has Five Big Problems With the iPhone 5 — Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone 5 supply shortfall is being exacerbated by a quality-control crackdown at Foxconn Technology Group that's designed to cut the number of devices shipped …
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Facebook Fought SEC to Keep Mobile Risks Hidden Before IPO Crash — When Facebook Inc. (FB) filed its proposal Feb. 1 to go public, it touted the effectiveness of ads linked to customers' friends, citing research from Nielsen, the audience-counting company.| AllThingsD: |
Twitter Buys Vine, a Video Clip Company That Never Launched — If Twitter ends up running its own video service, this should help: The messaging service has bought Vine, a video sharing startup. — We don't have terms for the deal, but this looks like a lot like an acqhire …
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Huawei faces exclusion from planned Canada government network — (Reuters) - Canada indicated strongly on Tuesday it would exclude Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from helping to build a secure Canadian government communications network because of possible security risks.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Widening Scrutiny of Google's Smartphone Patents — For more than a year, the Federal Trade Commission has been conducting a broad antitrust investigation into the way Google runs its Internet search and search advertising businesses. But in recent months it has added another investigation into Google's competitive behavior.| Evan Ramstad / Digits: |
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple's Lightning Authentication Reportedly Cracked, Unauthorized Third-Party Cables Coming — Chinese firm iPhone5mod has introduced (via M.I.C. gadget) a new iPhone 5 Flash Lightning Dock, marking one of the first claimed efforts to implement Apple's Lightning connector standard on a mass production basis.| Brandon Savage / The Box Blog: |
Announcing the Bigger, Better, All-New Box Experience — Our CEO, Aaron Levie, just finished his big keynote at BoxWorks earlier, where he made some major announcements about what we're doing with Box. Our vision: make it incredibly easy for our customers - 140,000 businesses and 14 million users …
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The Next Web, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Next Web, SocialTimes and GigaOM
| Troy Wolverton / Mercury News: |
Exclusive: Assets of Palo Alto gaming company OnLive were sold off for just $4.8 million — Venture capitalist Gary Lauder paid just $4.8 million for the remnants of OnLive when the company went through its insolvency process this summer, a letter obtained by this newspaper reveals.
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The Verge and GamesIndustry International
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
iPhone Usage Among U.S. Teens Hits 40% as iPad Continues to Gain Traction — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster today released a report outlining the results of his semi-annual survey of U.S. teenagers, revealing that iPhone and iPad usage continues to surge among the demographic.
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CNET, Fortune, iDownloadBlog.com, Daring Fireball, NYT Bits and Forbes. Tweets: @counternotions
| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
The Do Not Track standard has crossed into crazy territory — Summary: The advertising industry wants to change the definition of Do Not Track into something Orwell would be proud of. One influential member of the W3C working group says he's lost the energy to go on. Is it time to kill Do Not Track?
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AdExchanger and Daring Fireball
| Andrew Klein / Backblaze Blog: |
Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand drive crisis — The rain started in August and by mid-October 2011, violent floods in Thailand had crippled the factories that helped produce nearly half of the world's hard drives. As an online backup company, Backblaze fills more than 50 TB of new drives every day.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Reed Hastings Won't Be Returning To Microsoft's Board, Will Skip Re-Election — Today, Microsoft announced a shakeup on the board side of the company by announcing that Reed Hastings will not be seeking re-election. — Here's what Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, had to say about the departure:
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case — Behind this door at an AT&T San Francisco office is a switching room where the NSA allegedly siphoned Americans' communications. Photo: Mark Klein — The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday …
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CNET and Ars Technica
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Microsoft confirms cash for Xbox content in Windows 8, Microsoft Points remain for Xbox 360 — Microsoft Points aren't dead just yet — Earlier this week The Verge reported that Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system now defaults to local currency for music and video downloads or rentals.
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Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
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Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
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Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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